Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package that the company had offered to those who disagreed with his direction of ...

Web hosting company WP Engine has filed an amended complaint with brow-raising new allegations in its ongoing legal battle with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and his company Automattic ...

Days after 159 people accepted Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s offer of a six-month severance package to employees who wanted to leave, the company floated a new offer late on October 16 of a ...

The company behind WordPress, Automattic Inc., and its founder, Matt Mullenweg, continue to face backlash over a “nuclear war” started with WP Engine (WPE) that allegedly messed with maintenance and ...

Automattic Inc. and its founder have been sued by a WordPress hosting company that alleges an extortion scheme to extract payments for use of the trademark for the open source WordPress software.

SEO plays a role in Automattic’s counterclaim against WP Engine. The legal document mentions search engine optimization six times and SEO once as part of counterclaims asserting that WP Engine ...

Automattic announced it is minimizing support for the WordPress.org CMS project, framing the withdrawal of resources as a positive change to strengthen WordPress. The announcement attributed the ...

‘Open source communication is a fundamental human right,’ Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says, and he’s buying a platform to help pull it off. ‘Open source communication is a fundamental human right,’ ...